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The Register of Number Plates Suppliers

Amongst the new laws the DVLA has enforced during the last decade, one of the most welcome within the Number Plates industry has been their Register of Number Plates Suppliers scheme, or RNPS.

Previously the physical Perspex Number Plates were made by garages, motoring accessory shops and some hardware stores. Now if you require a set of number plates by law they can only be supplied and made by a DVLA Registered Supplier.

What is the Register of Number Plates Suppliers (RNPS)?

A Number Plates Supplier is a company that supplies physical number plates i.e. the Perspex plates that show the registration mark of a vehicle as registered with the DVLA.

Introduced in 2003, the DVLA’s RNPS is legislation to regulate the many companies that supply physical number plates. At the scheme’s heart is the requirement that plates may only be sold if a link can be demonstrated between the number requested and a valid, existing vehicle registration.

The scheme covers a wide array of organisations including:

assemblers

distributors

manufacturers

motor dealers

motor factors

retail outlets

on-line retailers such as ourselves!

Why Introduce the Register?

The Home Office established The Vehicle Crime Reduction Action Team, or VCRAT, to develop and implement a plan to cut vehicle crime. One VCRAT recommendation was statutory registration of the number plate suppliers in order to make it much harder for criminals to make stolen vehicles appear legitimate by using counterfeit number plates. This was enacted as the RNPS.

It is illegal to supply number plates unless registered under RNPS! You could be charged with selling counterfeit plates!

As you need to provide proof that you are entitled to a set of number plates, the scheme makes it much harder to obtain plates illegitimately.

Who is exempt from the RNPS?

There are some exceptions to the UK’s RNPS legislation, including:

supply plates for newly registered vehicles

suppliers located entirely outside the UK

components manufacturers who don’t sell complete plates

companies who fit plates to their own vehicles but do not supply them to anyone else.

Please note that a motor trader who fits new plates to used vehicles to sell on is not exempted because the vehicle has been previously registered!

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Over 50 million personalised registration plates are available on the Carreg website. If you cannot find your ideal private plates via our database search please try our plate finder service where we have an alphabetical list of all private plates for sale. If you wish to sell your personal registration plate then visit our Number Plate Valuation page. We can supply most car registrations on government certificates issued by the Driver And Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Swansea, which will be valid for 10 years. Every private number plate and car registration we supply can be transferred by DVLA, by us or our customers. Some of the 'cherished registrations' offered originate from unissued Government stock from DVLA.

Please Note: All reduced numbers are subject to VAT and a DVLA fee of £80, all subject to availability. Car Reg arrange all reg transfers via DVLA Swansea. DVLA is a registered trade mark of the Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency. Classic Enterprises (UK) Ltd is in no way affiliated to the DVLA. Classic Enterprises (UK) Ltd is a recognised reseller of DVLA registrations and a registered DVLA number plates supplier (No: 27154). All private plates on this website are subject to price check and availability prior to written confirmation purchase - Classic Enterprises UK Ltd & CarReg can not be held responsible for price errors or none availability. Visit our Motor Yachting Site.